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Helmi Tolonen
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NRIris is on the verge of a burn out because she is forced to take all emotional and practical responsibility in her relationship with Leo. A mystical support group leader introduces her to a questionable method that could equalize her relationship. To follow through the method is harder than Iris expected.
Emotional Labour Club
2020
NRThagang is the name of six girls' Snapchat group. This is where things happen now that they no longer see each other in school every day. They've been a group since nursery, and in the spring they finished at the Sweden-Finnish School. They've been in a Sweden-Finnish bubble, and now they're exploring new worlds for themselves. But their strong sense of friendship remains. This film portrays a day in their lives. It's a film about being 16, about friendship in the digital age, and puts the spotlight on how new forms of Sweden-Finnish identity express themselves in young people today
Sorry Toni
2021
NRNabil invites Ziba's friend Alice home for dinner because he suspects something is going on between them. The realization crushes them both.
Ziba
2021
45-year-old Iris, a musician performing aboard the ferry between Vaasa and Umeå, is stuck in a life that never quite turned out the way she imagined. When a younger music producer suddenly sees her in a new light, a longing for something different awakens – but pursuing it draws her into a web of lies that threatens everything she already has.
The Bottom Line
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Behind the camera
NRIris is on the verge of a burn out because she is forced to take all emotional and practical responsibility in her relationship with Leo. A mystical support group leader introduces her to a questionable method that could equalize her relationship. To follow through the method is harder than Iris expected.
Emotional Labour Club
2020
NRThagang is the name of six girls' Snapchat group. This is where things happen now that they no longer see each other in school every day. They've been a group since nursery, and in the spring they finished at the Sweden-Finnish School. They've been in a Sweden-Finnish bubble, and now they're exploring new worlds for themselves. But their strong sense of friendship remains. This film portrays a day in their lives. It's a film about being 16, about friendship in the digital age, and puts the spotlight on how new forms of Sweden-Finnish identity express themselves in young people today
Sorry Toni
2021
NRNabil invites Ziba's friend Alice home for dinner because he suspects something is going on between them. The realization crushes them both.
Ziba
2021
45-year-old Iris, a musician performing aboard the ferry between Vaasa and Umeå, is stuck in a life that never quite turned out the way she imagined. When a younger music producer suddenly sees her in a new light, a longing for something different awakens – but pursuing it draws her into a web of lies that threatens everything she already has.
The Bottom Line
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